Even the thin reeds are getting swamped.
Aug. 9th, 2003 05:40 amYou know those "mobile labs" in Iraq? The truck trailers allegedly used to make bio weapons?
Guess what.
From the New York Times today:
Iraqi Trailers Said to Make Hydrogen, Not Biological Arms
By DOUGLAS JEHL
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 — Engineering experts from the Defense Intelligence Agency have come to believe that the most likely use for two mysterious trailers found in Iraq was to produce hydrogen for weather balloons rather than to make biological weapons, government officials say.
Oops.
There's also much harrumphing about whether the analysis back in May that led to the public announcement of the trailers' existence was politically rushed or not.
Guess what.
From the New York Times today:
Iraqi Trailers Said to Make Hydrogen, Not Biological Arms
By DOUGLAS JEHL
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 — Engineering experts from the Defense Intelligence Agency have come to believe that the most likely use for two mysterious trailers found in Iraq was to produce hydrogen for weather balloons rather than to make biological weapons, government officials say.
Oops.
There's also much harrumphing about whether the analysis back in May that led to the public announcement of the trailers' existence was politically rushed or not.